I have followed my 95 wrangler through the snow/mud/trails with my stock JGC with the latitudes with no issue. My wrangler has a 4 inch lift with 33" BFG's on it. I do get that the tires do not look like an offroad tire but I have yet to run into a situation where they have held me back.

Well ok. There's a vote of confidence in the Latitudes. I guess I won't try to have them changed out before taking ownership of my freshly built Overland.

The worse I'll encounter is snow, or 4 inches of mud with a hard base.

Well ok. There's a vote of confidence in the Latitudes. I guess I won't try to have them changed out before taking ownership of my freshly built Overland.

The worse I'll encounter is snow, or 4 inches of mud with a hard base.

I am in Pittsburgh also. What part are you in?

The snow is nothing to worry about here, neither is 4" of mud. I do think they look like crap and wear horrible but they do perform good. I have 18K miles on mine and the stock tires are already wore down past the wear strips. That sucks.

My latitude's tread is shot. I just hit 42k miles. Essentially all highway.
They're working on a discount since the tires are warranted for 65k miles. Has anybody else experienced this? Any better tires out there in terms of tread life?
Thanks.

My latitude's tread is shot. I just hit 42k miles. Essentially all highway.
They're working on a discount since the tires are warranted for 65k miles. Has anybody else experienced this? Any better tires out there in terms of tread life?
Thanks.

I have 18K miles on my 2011 JGC and the Michelin tour's are down to the wear marks.

I've got about 500 miles on my Latitudes right now and wondering with all this talk about the tread life being so short if it's worth swapping out now. Are the Silent Armor's and LTX M/S2's pretty comparable for gas mileage?

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Originally Posted by 77rednecktruck

I have 18K miles on my 2011 JGC and the Michelin tour's are down to the wear marks.

My Latitudes were completely worn out at 50,000 kms (30,000 miles), in spite of rotating and good inflation throughout. The wear was not uneven, just uniformly down to the wear bars on all four tires. And the Canadian Michelin web site claimed they were rated at 110,000 kms. Crap!

Every other set of Michelins I've owned over the past 25 years have lasted 90% to 105% of their rated treadwear life on my vehicles. Not the Latitudes.

Michelin is in my penalty box for a least a few years after this experience. So no LTX AT/2s for me now. Instead I went with Goodyear Silent Armors, and I am very happy. Good grippy tread, yet highway quiet, as their name implies.

I also got the Michelin Latitudes on my Off Road Adventure II Package. A poor tire for off road use. They are about down to the tread wear indicators at only 21,000 miles. This may be my last set of Michelin tires.